dove

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n. 鸽子 dive的过去式

发音

US /dʌv/
UK /dəʊv/
US /doʊv/
其它 /dʊv/

词形变化

doves 复数 doves

别名

dow

教材释义与例句

名词

鸽子；鸽派人士

动词

潜水（dive的过去式）

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

    鸽子

    白鸽

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

    可数 政治 不可数
  3. 3.

    Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

    可数 俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    simple past of dive

    加拿大 美国 方言

    2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.

  2. 2.

    past participle of dive

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

squab peacenik

反义词 1

hawk

上位词 7

pigeon poultry emblem pacifist allegory disarmer pacificist

下位词 2

turtle dove mourning dove

整体词 1

domestic pigeon

相关短语

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *dūbaną? Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ Proto-West Germanic *dūbā Old English *dūfe Middle English douve English dove Inherited from Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

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